12th century public domain art

Artworks created between 1101 and 1200, drawn from every collection indexed here. Free to download, with colour palettes and print sizes measured from each file.

Works in 12th century public domain art

The White Path Between Two Rivers

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Welcoming Descent of Jizō

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Boats at Anchor on West Lake at the City Gate

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Medicine Master Buddha and the Twelve Divine Generals

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Samantabhadra

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Tantric Buddha Vairochana as Vajrasattva

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The Secret Five Bodhisattvas (Gohimitsu Bosatsu)

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Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

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Single Leaf Excised from a Gospel Book: The Nativity (recto) and St. Matthew (verso)

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Buddha Amitābha with Two Attending Bodhisattvas

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Single Leaf Excised from a Gospel Book with Initial L[iber generationis]: St. Matthew (verso)

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Single Leaf Excised from a Gospel Book: The Nativity (recto)

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Top cover, from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

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Ratnasambhava, Akshobhya, Vairochana with attendants, Amitabha, and Amoghasiddhi, Top cover, from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Search the Mountain: Leaf 41

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Landscape with Woodcutters Returning Home

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Bottom cover, from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

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Taira no Kanemori of the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals

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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 1

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Fujiwara no Muchimaro

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White-Robed Kannon (Byakue Kannon)

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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Kings of Hells: Leaf 29

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Landscape with Poet Tao Yuanming (365–472 CE)

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Historiated Initial (E) Excised from a Gradual: Adoration of the Magi

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Prajnaparamita flanked by two female figures, folio 1 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

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Ink Bamboo

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Single Leaf from a Decretum by Gratian: Decorated Initial Q[uidam habens filium obtulit]

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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes

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Folio 1 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

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End of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines; Haribhadra’s final remarks; beginning of colophon, folio 187 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

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Text, folio 4 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

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Lotus Sutra with a Frontispiece

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Single Leaf from a Decretum by Gratian: Quadruple Arcade with Concordance of Greek and Latin Alphabets

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Cutting from an Antiphonary: Initial A[spiciens a longe]: The Tree of Jesse

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Single Leaf: Table of Consanguinity

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Insects and Bamboo

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Eleven-Headed Kannon (Jūichimen Kannon)

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Birds on an Autumn Inlet

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Leaf from a Psalter(?): Annunciation (recto); Nativity (verso)

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Leaf from a Psalter: Nativity (verso)

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Four bodhisattvas and two attendants flanking Vajrasattva, bottom cover, from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

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Leaf from a Psalter(?): Annunciation (recto)

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Footed Bowl

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Preaching Amitabha with Avalokiteshvara and Manjushri, folio 186 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Kings of Hells: Leaf 27

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Miniature Excised from a Gospel Book with Initial L[iber generationis]: The Symbol of Saint Matthew (recto)

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Miniature Excised from a Gospel Book: The Symbol of St. Matthew (recto) and Canon Tables (verso)

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Historiated Initial (P) Excised from a Choral Book: St. Michael and the Dragon

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Mountain Landscape in Moonlight

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Miniature from a Compendium of Saints' Lives: Saint Catherine of Alexandria Disputing with the Fifty Philosophers

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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Kings of Hells: Leaf 35

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Prajnaparamita flanked by two bodhisattvas, folio 187 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Kings of Hells: Leaf 40

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Text, folio 3 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Kings of Hells: Leaf 33

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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Kings of Hells: Leaf 28

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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Kings of Hells: Leaf 30

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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Kings of Hells: Leaf 31

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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Kings of Hells: Leaf 32

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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Kings of Hells: Leaf 34

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